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Not him/her again!

I've encountered this person before. The World of Warcraft one with the Dranei and the Murloc? That was on AFF. I'm not even looking at the others.

I think I remember him now. God, I need to reread the Pierce books.

"Joren has longish white-blond hair, blue eyes"

*gasps* That's it! All males that look like that are doomed to be destroyed by fanfiction authors. Draco! Legolas! Joren! It all makes sense now!

"For a start 'unstable genetic code' doesn't exist. Not in that way, at least. So we'll just not think about that."

I thought so. :P

"So, here's my thoughts on Eevee - I can't remember if the things it evolves into are Pokemon that can also evolve from other baby Pokemon or not"

No. Eevee's evolutions are only formed from Eevees. Vaporeon: Water Stone. Jolteon: Thunder Stone. Flareon: Fire Stone. Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon and Glaceon, I have no idea.

"This point would be strengthened were it to turn out that each Eevee-adult of different appearance could still breed with Eevee-adults of dissimilar appearance."

I believe that they can, but don't quote me on it.

"Perhaps it's got an amorphous body and a really really good colour-change system, and enough sense-organs to produce a good enough picture in its brain of what it needs to look like to enable it to change form to imitate other Pokemon."

It has eyes though. And a mouth. And presumably ears so that it can hear what it's trainer is saying.

"Again, still talking mostly out my arse here, esp. on Ditto (Eevee I'm happier about because hey, evolutionary biology is kinda my thing) but whatever, hopefully it's useful technobabble for you :D"

Yes, it was. Thanks.

All of them.  I've reported several, and I'm by no means the first to do so.

All of them?

They are all T-rated. If they are not safe for work their rating is too low and they should be reported.

NSFW, NSFB, spans several continua.

Claims to be "the work of three seperate (sic) best-selling authors."  I hope this is a troll, but I'm not entirely certain.

I hate you for making me laugh loud enough that I've probably woken up my parents.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4989735/1/My_Angel Ow.

How does one exorcise/slay a supernatural being? Since it's a continuum in its own right, the unofficial ban on exorcising God fanfic presumably doesn't count.

If the continuum doesn't already have one, I propose that the Minis be Mini-Golgothans.

As in, when the pregnancy lingers on and the baby is growing too big for a safe delivery, they artificially begin contractions and the child is born before any problems can begin. I know for a fact that most babies born at six or seven months have a very high survival rate, so don't believe any of that rubbish about how it has to be nine months or else.

Of course, I only made it to chapter two...

The fic also seems a bit short from my perspective. I only made it to Chap.2 before my sheer ignorance of the other two franchises stopped me on my tracks.

"The only problems are Eevee and Ditto. How do you explain a Pokémon that can evolve into seven completely different species (and don’t say ‘unstable genetic code’ unless that’s actually plausible :P) and a Pokémon that can take the form of anything?"

For a start 'unstable genetic code' doesn't exist. Not in that way, at least. So we'll just not think about that.

However, saying it evolves into seven different species doesn't work, either, because you cannot change species. No individual has ever changed species, just like no individual has ever evolved. Evolution is a process that happens between generations. So, here's my thoughts on Eevee - I can't remember if the things it evolves into are Pokemon that can also evolve from other baby Pokemon or not, but if that is so, then I would say that the Eevee version are mimics rather than the same 'species' as the same adult-appearance evolved from a different juvenile. If the things that Eevee evolves into are ONLY known as end products of Eevee evolution, well, then what you have is extreme ecophenotypic variation. I'm assuming that different catalysts or events or triggers or environments are required to get it to change into any specific adult? It's not random? Then it's merely variation, not a different species. This point would be strengthened were it to turn out that each Eevee-adult of different appearance could still breed with Eevee-adults of dissimilar appearance.

As to Ditto, well, mimicry again. Of course I'd like to investigate the mechanism by which it does it, but plenty of animals are capable of imitating other animals, plants, rocks etc, and there are enough chameleon-like animals that can change colour, and from memory it's a sort of jelly-ball thing when it's not being something else? Perhaps it's got an amorphous body and a really really good colour-change system, and enough sense-organs to produce a good enough picture in its brain of what it needs to look like to enable it to change form to imitate other Pokemon.

Again, still talking mostly out my arse here, esp. on Ditto (Eevee I'm happier about because hey, evolutionary biology is kinda my thing) but whatever, hopefully it's useful technobabble for you :D

And for Fynn's, either, cos I is useless. Anyway

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, both of you!

*starts sharing the lembas around*

I don't see any reason why not! *gets out balloons*

Not quite enough, I think, but it doesn't seem quite right.

I KNOW! I'm using one of those in my original story, and I'm STILL constantly fiddling with it. This one probably took all of five minutes to write! And what's with Flippy's lolspeak dialect?

That was kind of confusing.  The beta request is not for the snippet; it's for the mission that I've basically completed.  (Provided I get permission, that is...)

Agents Renée Garrett and Phoebe Claypool.

Stand of the Exiles, since someone decided to be nice (if that's the word) and put it back online.

A snippet.  This is part of an early draft of a story that I have since submitted to Activision-Blizzard's fiction contest.  As such, the completed work is not available online.

Not that they really end up needing it; the fic makes it pretty clear that the Sue had left a trail.

I asked my sister yesterday. She says, marvellously helpfully, that she really can't remember, but there's not really an average either - it can vary a lot.

As for how they feel, she likened it to a sort of dull burning pain in the lower back. My fairy godson's mother said pretty much the same.

I just got done with one of these Abusive Parent Plot Device things! Why would ANYONE think that that's a good plot device to use without the absolute most delicate handling?

What happens is that the baby is floating inside a sac of what's called amniotic fluid, which rather resembles water in looks, inside the womb. When the sac breaks, which it will do at some point during labour, the fluid escapes. That's the waters breaking. The show, as has already been explained, is something totally different.

to a point. If you ever saw a baby right after birth, they actually have a pointed head, also the clavacles are on the softer side so that it wont break. But squish too much and you will kill the baby.

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